Hilary Benn Quotes

Believe me, people with disabilities are just as concerned about benefit fraud as anyone else. Money spent on those who are not in need is money that isn't being spent on vital services to support us in the community.

The test of civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

It's distressing to see anyone in the community struggle to access public transport - whether they're elderly, customers with a disability or families with prams.

Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.

There are creative ways to create pathways to sufficiency for families in need. To do so, we need to work together to implement good ideas.

Infrastructure development is a huge challenge for the people of Amethi.

Some will say it isn't the government's job to manage who people meet and interact with, but there is clearly a lot it can and should do. It should offer communities much more support to manage demographic and cultural change, including investment in public services and additional housing stock in our migration hotspots.

It's important to reach out to people who are marginalized.

It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

The issue should not be, we're going to tax you more to give you the services you want. The issue is, this is the wealthiest country in the world, and we're going to use that wealth to service human needs and not to service a military industrial corporate surveillance state.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

I think that we need to begin talking about what does it mean to create these safe spaces in our communities, to begin welcoming one another into our homes and into our communities when they're returning home from prison, people who are on the streets. We need to begin doing the work in our own communities of creating the kind of democracy that we would like to see on a larger scale.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

We have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves. And I will do that through a different system.

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

America will be a prosperous, generous, and inclusive society.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.